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New Mars Theory Questions Red Planet’s Watery Past

BBC News

The research is published in Nature Geoscience by Prof Alain Meunier from the University of Poitiers, France, and colleagues. It is interesting because it strikes at the heart of the notion that the Red Planet was awash with water, perhaps at its surface, more …read Clays in Pacific lavas back drier early Mars

Nature Geoscience

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Martian clays were not all formed by the action of liquid water.

Discovered in 2005, the clays of the southern hemisphere of Mars are often considered to be evidence for the existence of liquid water on the planet at a period in the very distant past between 4.5 and 4 billion years ago. However, work carried out by a French-US team led by researchers at the Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux in Poitiers (CNRS/Université de Poitiers)(1) calls this interpretation into question. Read

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Mars Magma Study Questions Red Planet’s Watery Past, Habitability
“It was the first time that clays were shown to originate from another process than aqueous alteration,” researcher Alain Meunier, of the Université de Poitiers in France… Read

News Track India

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to …Read

CBS News

“It was the first time that clays were shown to originate from another process than aqueous alteration,” researcher Alain Meunier, of the Université de Poitiers in France, told SPACE.com by email. “The consequence was that, even if clays need water to be … Read

NBC News

“The infrared spectra we got in the lab (on Mururoa clays) using a reflected beam are astonishingly similar to that obtained on Mars by the orbiters,” lead researcher Alain Meunier, with the University of Poitiers in France, wrote in an email to Discovery News. read

Science Daily

… in the very distant past between 4.5 and 4 billion years ago. However, work carried out by a French-US team led by researchers at the Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux in Poitiers (CNRS/Université de Poitiers) calls this interpretation into question. Read

COSMOS

Clay cannot be used to prove liquid water. Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to Martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava… read

SPACE.COM

It was the first time that clays were shown to originate from another process than aqueous alteration,” researcher Alain Meunier, of the Université de Poitiers in France…

iafrica.com

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava.

New Scientist

Alain Meunier of the University of Poitiers in France has found that some Mars minerals from the Noachian period are a good chemical match to clays at the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia, which formed from cooling of water-rich lava. What’s more, these …Read

ScienceNews

But that doesn’t mean water didn’t flow on the surface during brief episodes, as evidenced by the planet’s ancient river valleys, says coauthor Alain Meunier of the University of Poitiers in France. Ehlmann says scientists need to find a spot on Mars where …

redOrbit

Martian Clay Suggests Planet May Have Been Hotter, Less Wet

Professor Alain Meunier of University of Poitiers, France, a coauthor of the study, said this finding is interesting because it stands in the face of other notions that Mars had a watery past, and forces a rethink of the Red Planet’s early history.

“Mars was not as warm and wet in its earliest time as some have suggested. I do not believe in an early ocean on Mars,” Prof Meunier told Jonathan Amos of BBC News…

China Post

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read

Planet Save

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read

Universe Today

A research team led by Alain Meunier of the Université de Poitiers in France studied lavas containing iron and magnesium — similar to ancient clays identified on the surface of Mars — in the French Polynesian atoll of Moruroa. The team’s findings show that … Read

AFP

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read

Hindustan Times

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read

Oman Daily Observer

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read

Phys.Org

Alain Meunier of France’s Universite de Poitiers and a team studied clay minerals at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia that seem similar to martian examples, and showed they were formed from precipitation of lava. The same process has also occurred at … Read